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What Next TBD: Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dysfunction is nothing new to Twitter. But Elon Musk pulling his offer to buy the company adds a new layer of chaos. Guest: Alex Kantrowitz Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

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0:06.0

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0:17.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.7

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0:33.3

If you went to like sum up the mood inside of Twitter right now, how would you describe it?

0:40.4

It's pretty ugly in terms of the way that the employees are reacting to this.

0:45.4

Journalist Alex Cantrowitz writes the newsletter Big Technology, and he hosts the podcast with the same name.

0:51.2

So he's been following every twist and turn in the saga of Elon Musk's

0:55.7

bid to buy Twitter and his very public change of heart. That includes the emotional roller coaster

1:01.4

Twitter's 7,000 employees have been on. They feel like they've been left out to dry by their

1:08.6

CEO who has now pursued this deal to somebody who doesn't want to buy

1:13.1

the company and has promised big changes inside the company indicated layoffs are coming,

1:19.4

disparaged their work. And up until this week, the company really hasn't said much in their defense.

1:26.8

Now, following Musk's announcement that he does not want to buy Twitter,

1:30.6

the company has sued to try to make the deal go through,

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